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To: geode00 who wrote (171768)	10/3/2005 4:35:49 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

<It's interesting if it's happening quickly in NZ. It doesn't happen quickly in the US. > New Zealand never had the slavery and segregation that the USA had against negroes. Maoris weren't shipped to New Zealand as slaves then abused and maltreated for centuries. Maoris had their own slaves; neighbouring tribes they had defeated, who they abused, maltreated, killed, ate, or tattooed preparatory to decapitating and shrinking the head to sell to curious foreigners. That ended with the bulk murder and enslavement of Morioris on the Chatham Islands [a variety of Maori who had migrated there centuries ago]. On the mainland, it ended sooner. So Maoris were in a completely different position to the slaves of the USA. So miscegenation was much more likely. There was a lot of empathy between British and Maori. For generations, we've gone to the same schools, lived next door to each other and become Kiwis together. Maoris weren't shoved onto reservations by military action after major killings. There were some military conflicts, but relatively minor. Maoris retained their lands unless they sold them, other than in some minor respects, and those have been and are being compensated. People born in NZ don't call themselves English-New Zealand, Dutch-New Zealand, African-New Zealand etc. We aren't hyphenated. There's a bit of cultural propagation through a couple of generations, sometimes. But for the most part, we are just Kiwis. Mqurice